The team created a novel tick antigen library housing over 3,000 different proteins, testing each to create a target cocktail ...

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a rare and potentially life-threatening allergy to red meat, has long been associated with bites ...

Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer New data from the CDC suggests that alpha-gal syndrome—a tick-borne allergy to red meat—may be more widespread than previously thought.Scientists long believed that only ...

New research led by Yale School of Medicine (YSM) advances the goals of creating a diagnostic test and vaccines for ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

a growing problem driven in the U.S. by black-legged ticks (or Ixodes scapularis). Researchers have been trying for decades to understand just how the tiny tick is able to evade the human body’s ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with the Maine CDC and other institutions, has confirmed that black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) may be responsible for ...

In Maine, the affected woman had confirmed bite from an Ixodes scapularis (I. scapularis) tick. In Washington, the woman was bitten by a Ixodes pacificus (I. pacificus) tick. “U.S. health and public ...

In the second study, researchers traced back a case of alpha-gal in Maine likely caused by the bite of an Ixodes scapularis tick, or deer tick. Though lone star ticks have rarely been found in ...

According to the report, both women reported being bitten by ticks, which suggests that other species—including Ixodes scapularis, also called black-legged or deer ticks—may also be associated with ...